11/09/2014 BBC Wales Today


11/09/2014

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Thank you very much. That is all from Edinburgh. There

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First Minister Carwyn Jones has announced a surprise reshuffle

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He said his government was now ready to focus on the tough choices Wales

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needs to create world-class public services and to build on the recent

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So who is in and who is out of the Cabinet?

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Former Education Minister Leighton Andrews returns as Minister

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for Public Services, 15 months after he resigned.

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But John Griffiths loses his post as Minister for Natural Resources,

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And Jeff Cuthbert is also leaving the government.

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His portfolio goes to Lesley Griffiths.

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Glued to his smartphone this afternoon and back in the Cabinet.

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The First Minister used social media to announce changes to his

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ministerial team and there was good news for Leighton Andrews, forced to

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resign as Education Minister over a year ago. He is now back in the fold

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and in charge of public services. He will be pushing through counsel

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mergers, a tough challenge for a politician who is not afraid of

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ruffling feathers. He was talking today about consensus. People have

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accepted there has to be reformed, there has to be reorganisation, some

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councillors are talking actively already about a merger. We have now

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got to seek a consensus across the whole of Wales. Through the

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afternoon, the First Minister shared news of the reshuffle with his team

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at his office in Cardiff. Carl Sargeant looked pleased with his new

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job as natural resources Minister. For others, there is little or no

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change. Jane Hutt stays as Finance Minister. Edwina Hart has been in

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the Cabinet since the start of devolution. She also stays put. I am

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delighted to be staying in the position, delighted that Ken is

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continuing to be my deputy minister. It shows confidence in the

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Department and the way we have worked. I think it does show that

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there is little or no talent on the Labour backbenches and so he was the

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rift of bringing any real fresh blood into this tired Cabinet. Many

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of the Cabinet members have been there since 1999. Lesley Griffiths

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takes responsibility for communities and tackling poverty. Also moving to

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the backbenches are John Griffiths and former deputy minister Gwenda

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Thomas. Julie James is the new face in the deputy ministerial team. And

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there are beefed up roles for other deputies. You go in there nervous

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and come out delighted. I am amazed. I really am. I think it is the best

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team I can put in place, a very strong team, I have people who will

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be working hard towards the election. It will serve the people

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of Wales well. A new team for the new assembly term which starts next

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week. But also a line-up which the First Minister believes is equipped

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to steal Wales through crucial months ahead.

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A Muslim student from Cardiff who called himself

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the father of terrorism has been jailed for more than three years.

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Khuram Iqbal admitted posting more than 800 links online to extremist

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material, using Facebook and Twitter to spread videos and articles.

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Thousands of workers at government buildings in Cardiff

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had to leave their offices earlier as a controlled explosion was

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Some roads in the Llanishen area were closed but the all clear was

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An investigation is underway after man died in a house fire in Neath.

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Emergency services were called to the incident on

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Officers have not been able to identify the man

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All this week, we have been looking at the effect of the outcome of

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And the effect that vote will have on the economy and the way we are

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governed was centre stage at a major conference in Cardiff today.

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Which way for Scotland? Shadow Welsh Secretary Owen Smith became the

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latest Welsh politician to pitch into the battle over Scotland's

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future. We need to make sure they have heard loud and clear that the

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view from Wales and England and Northern Ireland is we do want them

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to stay and we do think we will all be diminished if we break apart. Mr

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Smith and other Labour MPs trooped North. Scottish banks threatened to

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go in the opposite direction. Royal Bank of Scotland confirmed it will

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move its registered headquarters to London if Scotland votes for

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independence. I noticed the markets this morning revealed they had a

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contingency. Alex Salmond says it is a technical change that will not

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affect customers but with other finance custom is -- companies

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intending to the same, questions over the cost of independence are

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under intense scrutiny. And the cost to Wales. Another question being

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scrutinised at a conference in Cardiff today. The Welsh economy

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will not profit either from any financial turmoil is. It is in the

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Welsh interest to for these guys to make a nice and it is go through the

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motions of sorting it out quite quickly. If you are wondering what

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the fate of Wales will be in the drama of Scotland's referendum, you

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are not alone. The great and the good of Welsh politics are trying to

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work it out. Some of them are here at eight conference in the Wales

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millennium Centre to ask this question, what are the implications

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for Wales of Scotland's choice? Meet Melanie Stevenson, a 26 euros

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student from Cardiff who would like to know what are the implications

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for Wales. Some say that if there is a yes vote in Scotland it will be

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good for us. You were saying in the conference about the Yes vote been

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great for Wales but why would it be great for Wills? I think politics

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has been dominated for in of decades now by London and the south-east and

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Westminster. And really, it is time power was shed a little bit more

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equally through the nations that make up the United Kingdom. If

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Scotland votes yes, the power that is currently all hemmed in London,

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some of it will be transferred to Edinburgh. That gives us an

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opportunity then to have a national conversation about the kind of

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powers that we want to hold. Scotland is top billing in the

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debate about the UK's constitution but Wales may have a part to play if

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there are knock-on effects for our economy or the powers that the Welsh

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assembly has, whatever they may be. A scheme which pays farmers

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and landowners to maintain the countryside is still flawed,

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according to a Wales Audit Office The Glastir scheme is supposed to

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protect landscape But today's report says

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participation is well below the target and some of

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its objectives cannot be measured. It is no mean feat cleaning certain

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parts of the Millennium Stadium. Today a 2 kilometre long system

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of ropes and rigging went into hoisting a team

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of three onto the stadiums masts. Not a job if you do not have

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a head for heights, with the work being carried out

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around 90 metres off the ground. Cricket and Glamorgan wrapped up a

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victory over Derbyshire with a day to spare. After setting the visitors

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20 -- 261, Glamorgan ripped through their opponents and bowled them out

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for 154. This settled September weather

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continues. We had a fair amount of cloud around today and similar

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tomorrow. The satellite picture really tells the story. After a

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bright start, we can see how that thicker cloud moved into the

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south-east. West was best for sunshine. Tonight, some clear spells

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but cloudier than last night. The crowd holding up the temperatures.

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Some early mist and fog, a grey start tomorrow but that will lift.

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Cloud will thin and break and similar right across the UK. A bit

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slow to clear in places but generally turning drier and brighter

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through the day and warmer. 19 Celsius for Glasgow and Belfast. And

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a brighter end to the day across Wales. Some cloud, not quite as

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sunny as it has been. Temperatures above average. Saturday, the best of

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the sunshine again. Temperatures in the low 20s. High pressure begins to

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drift to the north east, towards Scandinavia. We are slowly losing a

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grip on the fine weather and this area of low pressure in the Azores

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will slowly make inroads later next week. Maybe a bit cloudier and

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breezy than it has been but it looks like midweek next week we will start

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to see things breaking down with things turning more and settled with

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a return of some rain. You can keep up-to-date on the website.

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That is all for now. We are back in breakfast from 6am. But from me,

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good night.

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